Warriors and peacekeepers: Testing a biosocial implicit leadership hypothesis of intergroup relations using masculine and feminine faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Spisak, Brian R ^a   Dekker, Peter H ^a   Krüger, Max ^a   van Vugt, Mark ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MASCULINITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PEACE CORPS; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WAR; FACE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ADULT; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MASCULINITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856032383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030399     Document Type: Article

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